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Season 1  "The Truth Is Out There"  1x17

Aired 20 years ago - Mar 16, 2004

When the body of a sailor is found after a party in an illegal night club, the team investigates a number of possible leads - including blackmail and accidental death.

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Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 1
He's gonna be out for months. I want that terrorist on my table, Jethro.
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Hey boss, check this out.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 4
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 5
Hm. Does Antoine have a last name?
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 6
You run this booming night club by yourself?
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 7
I put a brand name on it, y'know, a name brand.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 8
That means that he cleared 8,125 dollars in one night. Ha!
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 9
Furniture indentations on the carpet. No fingerprints or smudges on the icebox - or on the microwave.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 10
Ah. This guy was way into reality shows. Real World. Simple Life, Punk'd...
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 11
Forty thousand dollars, all hundreds, non-sequential.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 12
You were Petty Officer Gordon's section chief.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 13
Drugs, maybe.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 14
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 15
Powder...was this powder applied, or from incidental... Most definitely applied.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 16
Probably couldn't be used as a hat.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 17
Wearing nothing but shorts in ten degree weather and a big plastic piece of cheese on his head saying Go Packers! Abs, it's apples and oranges.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 18
This one guy, he does a full upper body workout just seconds before his date so he can be all pumped.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 19
I'm sorry, uhm, you give me every single detail about your dates.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 20
You only take one car?
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 21
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Put out an APB on Wong's Taurus. And talk to Antoine Mann - two n's.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 24
We understand that you were working the door last night at the Daryn Spotnitz party.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 25
He didn't. He came in the club around eleven o'clock, they found him dead a few hours later.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 26
We know Gordon was purposely run down in the parking lot, probably died from a fractured skull, and somebody hid his body in the warehouse ceiling.
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Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 28
So he had to've been wearing the latex.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 29
The car that hit Gordon was definitely a Taurus. You're positive?
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 30
List of calls sorted by phone number and frequency of calls.
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 31
But ... Master Chief Nutter said that Gordon wasn't high enough on the food chain for kickbacks.
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Within a hundred meters.
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Forty mile zone ended two miles back, boss.
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Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 38
Okay, so...they were all in a conspiracy to do what? Kill their buddy for forty grand?
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 39
Gibbs.
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And Petty Officer Carter.
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All right. Let's do this.
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If I was you, Wong, I'd want a lawyer too.
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Who was the girl? Somebody's girlfriend? Hooker?
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I thought you had it!
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Wong is gonna have a heart attack.
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No!

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Hey boss, check this out.
#3
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 4 #4 Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 5
Hm. Does Antoine have a last name?
#5
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 6
You run this booming night club by yourself?
#6
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 7
I put a brand name on it, y'know, a name brand.
#7
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 8
That means that he cleared 8,125 dollars in one night. Ha!
#8
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 9
Furniture indentations on the carpet. No fingerprints or smudges on the icebox - or on the microwave.
#9
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 10
Ah. This guy was way into reality shows. Real World. Simple Life, Punk'd...
#10
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 11
Forty thousand dollars, all hundreds, non-sequential.
#11
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 12
You were Petty Officer Gordon's section chief.
#12
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 13
Drugs, maybe.
#13
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Powder...was this powder applied, or from incidental... Most definitely applied.
#15
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 16
Probably couldn't be used as a hat.
#16
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 17
Wearing nothing but shorts in ten degree weather and a big plastic piece of cheese on his head saying Go Packers! Abs, it's apples and oranges.
#17
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 18
This one guy, he does a full upper body workout just seconds before his date so he can be all pumped.
#18
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 19
I'm sorry, uhm, you give me every single detail about your dates.
#19
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You only take one car?
#20
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 21 #21 Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 22 #22 Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 23
Put out an APB on Wong's Taurus. And talk to Antoine Mann - two n's.
#23
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 24
We understand that you were working the door last night at the Daryn Spotnitz party.
#24
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 25
He didn't. He came in the club around eleven o'clock, they found him dead a few hours later.
#25
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 26
We know Gordon was purposely run down in the parking lot, probably died from a fractured skull, and somebody hid his body in the warehouse ceiling.
#26
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 27 #27 Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 28
So he had to've been wearing the latex.
#28
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 29
The car that hit Gordon was definitely a Taurus. You're positive?
#29
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 30
List of calls sorted by phone number and frequency of calls.
#30
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 31
But ... Master Chief Nutter said that Gordon wasn't high enough on the food chain for kickbacks.
#31
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Within a hundred meters.
#33
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Forty mile zone ended two miles back, boss.
#36
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Okay, so...they were all in a conspiracy to do what? Kill their buddy for forty grand?
#38
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 39
Gibbs.
#39
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And Petty Officer Carter.
#41
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All right. Let's do this.
#43
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 44
If I was you, Wong, I'd want a lawyer too.
#44
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Who was the girl? Somebody's girlfriend? Hooker?
#46
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I thought you had it!
#48
Recap of NCIS Season 1 Episode 17 (S01E17) - 49
Wong is gonna have a heart attack.
#49
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No!
#50